Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quotes

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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